Caro Meldrum-Hanna

Caro Meldrum-Hanna is an Australian investigative journalist.^[1]

Caro Meldrum-Hanna
Meldrum-Hanna accepts Perkin Award at Melbourne Press Club Quills, March 2017.

Meldrum-Hanna is best known for her work with ABC Television's Four Corners program.^[2][3][4][5]

Among Meldrum-Hanna's stories on Four Corners, two notable reports are an investigation into the treatment of juveniles at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre entitled "Australia's Shame" and an investigation into a greyhound racing live baiting scandal entitled "Making a Killing".^[6][7]

For "Making a Killing", Meldrum-Hanna was the co-recipient of the 2015 Gold Walkley, shared with producer Sam Clark and researcher Max Murch.^[8]

Also in 2015, she won Journalist of the Year at the Kennedy Awards.^[9]

Meldrum-Hanna is also known for a three-part ABC documentary which aired in 2018, Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane, which explored the case of waterpolo player Keli Lane, who was convicted of murdering her newborn daughter in 1996.^[10][11][12]

In 2015, Meldrum-Hanna spoke of the tribulations of being a female journalist covering sporting issues, recalling an alleged incident in which two male radio presenters in Adelaide insinuated during a live interview that she must have had a sexual relationship with sports scientist Stephen Dank for him to have granted her an interview during the Essendon Football Club supplements saga when he had refused other interview requests.^[13] According to Meldrum-Hanna, an apology was offered which she refused.^[14]

In 2021, Meldrum-Hanna produced a documentary Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire.^[15] The documentary contained allegations about corruption of former premier Neville Wran which were challenged by leaders from both sides of the political spectrum as 'unfair, uncorroborated and stretching credulity'.^[16]

Meldrum-Hanna is a graduate of the University of Technology Sydney.^[17]

Awards

• UTS Alumni Award for Excellence, 2017 - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ^[18]
• Logie Award for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report, 2016^[19]
• Walkley Award winner, 2016, Jackson and Lawler ^[20]
• Melbourne Press Club Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, 2016, for Don Dale Youth Detention Centre coverage^[21]
• Journalist of the Year, 2015, Kennedy Awards
• Gold Walkley Award winner, 2015, Making a killing (with Sam Clark and Max Murch)^[22]
• Walkley Award winner, 2013, The Essendon Files, Demons in Damage control, The Cronulla Files ^[23]
• Walkley Award winner, 2011, Harness racing under scrutiny ^[24]